Example sentences of "until [noun] come [prep] " in BNC.

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1 My mother thought about this for a moment until comprehension came to her , whereupon she changed the subject out of deference to my youth and inexperience .
2 In the Soviet Union executive power was virtually supreme until Gorbachev came into office .
3 The best brains and resources had gone into military research and development until Gorbachev came to power .
4 The strategic deterrent will continue to be provided by the Polaris force until Trident comes into service from the mid-1990s .
5 Until peace comes to the Gulf , it will remain a society struggling to survive .
6 When they leave , Elaine has no professional support until Sylvia comes in the morning .
7 And she laughed until tears came to her eyes .
8 Meanwhile , at Erfurt , many of the princes and the archbishops of Mecklenburg and Salzburg and the bishops of Merseburg , Worms and Bamberg proceeded to designate Philip as imperial defender until Frederick came of age .
9 When Mary I married Philip of Spain she decreed they ruled England jointly , and for the next few years until Elizabeth came to the throne the following strange convention was adopted for recording their regnal years : On 17 March 1649 the monarchy was abolished and during the period until parliamentary government was overtaken by the Restoration , English official documents were dated by the year of grace .
10 The descent is never-ending — I am glad — until Tony comes towards me .
11 So , until EMI comes to its senses and restores it to the catalogue , the Nuova Era will have to stand as an adequate , if less than ideal stopgap .
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